Greg Wooledge wrote: > I wrote this after learning of a security hole in $"..." expansion. > (See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/bash.html > for details of that.)
It seems to me that the security hole is the possibility of command substitution, rather than arbitary word expansions, which are inconvenient at worst. Inhibiting all expansions to protect against possibly malicious translated strings is a rather large stick to use. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
